befürworten
German, verb
befürworten is spelled B-E-F-Ü-R-W-O-R-T-E-N (11 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written German, the 20,214th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Befürworten is a German verb meaning “to endorse, to support, to back, to advocate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Befürworten is a different word: “gerund of befürworten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas unterstützen, sein Wort für etwas einsetzen”.
What does befürworten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to endorse, to support, to back, to advocate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of befürworten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas unterstützen, sein Wort für etwas einsetzen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of befürworten
- befürwortet present singular third-person
- befürwortete past
- haben auxiliary
- befürwortend participle present
- befürworte first-person indicative present
- befürwortest indicative present second-person
- befürworteten first-person indicative plural
- befürwortetest indicative preterite second-person
- befürwortetet indicative plural preterite
- befürwort imperative second-person singular
- habe befürwortet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben befürwortet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- befürwort! imperative singular
- befürworte! imperative singular
- befürwortet! imperative plural
- befürwortet haben active infinitive perfect
- befürwortet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- befürwortet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to befürworten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is befürworten in German?
befürworten appears 2.6 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).